February 11, 2024 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pennylane has reportedly raised €40M from Sequoia Capital and other investors, reflecting steady growth over the past two years. The company is also reporting a significant increase in the number of VSE-SMEs on its platform in 24 months thanks to the adoption of the tool… Read More

 Tagged arthur waller, funding round, pennylane, sequoia capital

February 11, 2024 @ 3:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

BitRail, a Fintech company whose PayGenius white label platform allows merchants to offer their own turn-key branded digital payments, wallets, and loyalty, this week announced a partnership with Payment Lock, a custom payment solutions provider with access to more than 300,000 merchants. PayGenius is independent… Read More

 Tagged BitRail, digital payments, Jeff Siegel, PayGenius, PaymentLock, ryan smith

February 11, 2024 @ 3:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Verimatrix (Euronext Paris: VMX), the firm powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, announced that HBL Microfinance Bank Ltd is among the latest financial institutions in the South Asia region “to deploy the Verimatrix Extended Threat Defense (XTD) app shielding service to protect FirstPay, the… Read More

 Tagged digital wallet, firstpay, hbl, hbl microfinance bank, security, verimatrix

February 11, 2024 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MeridianLink, Inc. (NYSE: MLNK), a provider of modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies, announced that A+ Federal Credit Union has selected MeridianLink® to update its loan origination system, “leveraging the Company’s multi-product platform, MeridianLink One.” The credit union already “uses MeridianLink… Read More

 Tagged a+ federal credit union, credit unions, lending, meridianlink

February 11, 2024 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Running a successful small business goes beyond profit margins; it’s about managing financial health. One crucial metric is your business credit score, according to the team at Thriday. Thriday’s latest feature – the business credit score check aims to address key requirements. As explained in… Read More

 Tagged business credit reporting, credit, creditorwatch, financial management, financial services, thriday

February 11, 2024 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

XTransfer, the B2B cross-border trade payment platform, announces a key milestone in its partnership with Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank has executed XTransfer’s first onshore Thai Baht (THB) trade in Thailand, “leveraging the latest version of the Bank of Thailand‘s Non-Resident Qualified Company (NRQC) rules.” Under… Read More

 Tagged b2b, cross-border trade, deutsche bank, milestone, payments, pimolpa simaroj, singapore, violas xiao, xtransfer

February 11, 2024 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) announced a partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate climate mitigation and resilience through financing and support for companies in the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability (GCR-Sustainability) program. GCR-Sustainability is a validation program for companies with solutions available on Google Cloud that help… Read More

 Tagged google cloud, hsbc, justin keeble, natalie blyth

February 11, 2024 @ 9:04 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) announced the successful issuance of approximately HK$6 billion in digital green bonds, marking a significant advancement in the integration of fintech and green finance. This initiative, part of the HKSAR Government’s Green Bond Programme, is… Read More

 Tagged christopher hui, eddie yue, fintech, green bond, hong kong, tokenization

February 11, 2024 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid is marking an “exciting” chapter for the Fintech firm as they recently welcomed Jen Taylor as the first President. As noted in a blog post by Plaid, Jen is considered to be an experienced product leader who joins them from Cloudflare where she “spent… Read More

 Tagged Jen Taylor, open banking, plaid

February 10, 2024 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Findings from the newly released Q4 2023 Quarterly Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) from TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) reveal that credit card debt is “at a historical high, driven in part by Millennials further building on their credit portfolios.” This comes at a time when an anticipated reduction in interest… Read More

 Tagged bank cards, consumer behavior, research, Research Report, transunion, united states, us